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A reminder that parent/student teacher inter-views are November 19th from 4:30-7:30 and Novem-ber 20th from 9:00 to 12:00. I would especially like to see high school parents out as I feel it is important to talk to your teachers and get a true sense of where your child is at regardless of how they are doing. Till next me take care. Sincerely, Jon Zilkey Principal

is November 2 at 10:30 at HCI for both schools. HCI has had many stu-dents in grade 12 off to En-counters with Canada in O awa this year. What a great experience for these students. Our magazine campaign has happened and the annual fowl supper is on November 1st. You s ll have me to get your cket I be-

lieve. We had four students go to the Provincial Leader-ship conference in Killarney along with Mrs. Huberdeau. Mr. Obach’s grade 9 class did a fantas c job of our student elec on bringing in all the candidates and giving them a chance to speak with our students three days before the elec on. Our sports teams had three girls go to soccer provincials with Strathclair and our volleyball teams are all preparing for playoffs. Please don’t forget to thank the coaches and teachers who volunteer their me to work with our stu-

dents. Without them we could not do all the ac vi es we do.

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Well we are near the midway point of the fall season and things are mov-ing along so quickly. Hard to believe we were just talking about the start-up of school and we are al-ready into November. Be-low are a few of the things that have been happening. At HES we welcomed a new staff member Mrs. Jenna Stewart to our Kin-dergarten room. Welcome Jenna and we hope you en-joy your me with us. The Westman Youth Choir per-formed for us on Oct 19th including three HCI stu-dents. What a great job by these students. Hesrak club is up and running and the buddy bench has been put to good use on our playgrounds. If you don’t understand either of these please give us a call and I will fill you in. Our Hallow-een party takes place on October 30th and parents please feel free to come out. Fes val poems are being prac ced and our Re-membrance Day ceremony

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HAMIOTA SCHOOLS NEWSLETTER

OCTOBER, 2015

Kyanna Johnson’s & Mikayla Grabowski’s Minion Pumpkins

Hamiota Schools Remembrance Day

Program

Tuesday, November 10 10:30 a.m.

Everyone welcome

KINDERGARTEN NEWS FROM MRS . MCNABB


Apples and Pumpkins! Lots of our learning ac vi es have focused around this theme this past month. We have traveled to Le erland using our SmartBoard to meet Annie Apple for the le er Aa. We graphed what kind of apples we liked the best: yellow, green, or red? Most kids in kindergarten prefer red apples. The least number of kids like yellow apples. We have iden fied, created, and extended pa erns using apples.

Along with Annie Apple, we have been spending me with Peter Puppy. His /p/ sound is at the beginning of many words like popcorn and pumpkin. We have many pumpkins in our class thanks to Erin Johns and her family! We have ordered the pumpkins by size

and will graph our favourite pumpkin face to determine how we will carve our class jack-o-lantern! Do you think the expression on our Jack-o-lantern’s face will be scary, happy, or funny? We are using pumpkin seeds to form capital and lowercase Pp’s. Our Handwri ng Without Tears program teaches us how to form le ers properly using Big lines, Li le Lines, Big Curves, and Li le Curves. Where do we start our le ers? From the top of course!

Of course we are super excited for our upcoming Halloween Party. Thanks to Wanda Facey and Amanda Kirk for making treats for us as we celebrate this fun occa-sion!

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 3rd, as we travel to Miniota School to perform our 2 poems: Mable Murple and Whisky Frisky. We are learning how to be good performers and are working very hard to learn our poems in prepara on for this event.

GRADE ONE NEWS FROM MRS . OBACH & STUDENTS

OCTOBER, 2015

We have had another beau ful month

of fall weather and October has flown by

quickly.

During October

our mini themes re-

volved around Thanks-

giving and Halloween. We read and listened

to stories and did art projects related to

these topics. We wrote a seasonal poem,

why we are thankful for an ordi-

nary object, what we would put

in a witches brew, clues for a

guess who is hiding behind the

mask ac vity as well as a Hal-

loween puppet play.

In math we con nue to

work on our doubles and close to doubles.

We have been coun ng by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s

star ng at different numbers going forward

and backward. We have also been learning

about increasing pa erns.

We were able to observe the complete

metamorphoses of our mealworms in sci-

ence class. It was exci ng to see how many

pupae turned into adult

beetles. We had lots of

fun making bird nests out

of items such as clay,

grass, twigs, feathers as

well as many other things

from nature. We have some very realis-

c looking nests on display in the hall-

way.

The past month has

been filled with special

events. On October 2nd we

had the Terry Fox Walk.

We had a great me mak-

ing posters and walking in

support of cancer research.

We listened to the wonderful singing of

the Westman Youth Choir. Our Hal-

loween party is on Friday and we are

looking forward to seeing many scary

and beau ful costumes and having fun

at the monster mash dance.

With October nearly over, we start

looking forward to saying our poems at

the fes val and taking part in Remem-

brance Day ac vi es.

Happy Halloween everyone!

GRADE TWO NEWS FROM MRS . GREGORY


It is hard to believe October is almost over. We are ge ng excited for Halloween and our party on Friday. We have been working on various Hal-

loween themed acros c poems as well as a fun ac vity where students get to decide how they would dress up Mr. Zilkey for Halloween. The ideas range from a Ninja (because he is tall and strong) to a clown (because he is funny and may be able to juggle), to a fairy (because he is so nice and kind). It has been lots of fun. Our October reading challenge was “Reading is Sweet”. For every 15 minutes students read at home, they get to add a Halloween s cker to their chart. Once the chart is full they can pick two sweet treats from our bucket. They can fill their charts as many mes as they want, to collect more treats. Thank you to all the parents for the con nued help to make home reading a success. In math we have been working on num-

bers to 1000 and various ways to represent them as well as place value. We can write numbers using words, digits, base 10 names, ex-panded form and represent

numbers with pictures. We are working hard to find different ways to represent a

given number. We have also worked on some Halloween math. Guided reading is in full swing, and students are working hard to use various strategies to help themselves. Some of the strategies we use are: Chunky Monkey, Skippy Frog, Stretchy Snake, Tryin’ Lion, Eagle Eye and Helpful Kangaroo. We also focus a great deal on fluency and comprehension. Read-ing should sound like we are talking, and in-clude expression. In Language Arts we are focusing on how to write a proper paragraph. Students have been wri ng about different animals as well as the Buddy Bench we have in our school play-ground. We are also working on various types of sentences, and ways to make our sentences more exci ng. We are looking forward to the fes val on No-vember 3rd, in Miniota. We are doing two poems – “Nothing Beat-Beat-Beats a Pizza” and “The Faithful Donut”. We would like to thank our faithful volun-teers in our room too! Audrey Kirk and Ma-vis Smith – we truly appreciate all the help you give to us! Heather Sheane will also be helping out in our room soon too! Volun-teers are special people to give up their own me to come into help us!!

From all of us in grade 3,

have a happy and safe

Halloween!!

GRADE THREE NEWS FROM MRS . NOWOSAD

OCTOBER, 2015

GRADE THREE NEWS FROM MRS . DIXON


October has been a busy month with quite a number of Halloween classroom ac vi es! We brainstormed some interes ng Halloween vocabulary and have been able to use it in our wri ng. We’ve started our

L.A. groups and everyone is learning to work promptly and in-dependently! This involves daily, reading, wri ng and word work. We’ve been exploring a variety of number concepts in Math and are able to work well with 3 digit numbers. Addi on and subtrac on of these numbers is coming up next! Check out the bulle n boards if you’re in the neighborhood and you’ll see a couple of interes ng art projects. We’ve been prac cing our cursive wri ng, so you’ll see our names disguised in our skeletons. See if you can find us!

We celebrated our Terry Fox Reading program with Mrs. Nowosad’s class and this month we’ve been reading to fill in our spider webs. Many of us have completed one al-ready and are now working on our second, or even our third project. Well done, Grade 3’s! We’re s ll working on our plants unit in Science. We’ve

learned about the important parts of a plant and enjoyed making 3D trees from a plain, brown lunchbag. They look fantas c! We’re looking forward to a number of things coming up…Halloween party,

Fes val, Lilac visits beginning in November. There’s never a dull moment

at school!

The Fall Session of the Birdtail River Fine Arts Fes val is November 3 &4 for Speech Arts. The Final Concert is Thursday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m. The Fes val is in Miniota this year.

GRADE FOUR NEWS FROM MRS . ROUTLEDGE

OCTOBER, 2015

October has been a busy month in Grade 4! The days are full and seem to be flying by... The Grade 4 class has welcomed two new students to our clan! Gallagher Verniest joined us in September and Grayson Williams has recently joined us from Rivers. Welcome to our two new boys! In ELA, we have been reading and wri ng up a storm! Guided Reading is fully underway with

new, exci ng tles like, Puppies In Training and Raps x 3! A royal story called Clever Manka and a legend en tled, Kahukura and the Net, have also made the cut! We meet every week in our reading groups and work on reading strategies, fluency, and comprehension. This month we have been talking

about making connec ons as we read and self-monitoring or asking ourselves ques ons while we read. TIP: When your child brings home reading home, listen to them read orally for just a few minutes each evening. { Listen....Is your child pausing appropriately for punctua on? Is your child self-correc ng while he/she reads orally? Does your child read with expression? Does your child’s reading flow smoothly in me-dium-large phrases? In Grade 4, we are making a daily habit of improving these reading skills. } October is a month to make a conscious effort to think about and write about all we are thankful for. The students wrote pa ern poems about what they were especially thankful for. These were framed by some colourful fall leaves. Halloween Acros c poems were a hit and can be seen hanging in our hallway. In math this month, we are wrapping up our first unit on Whole Numbers to 10 000. This is a large unit with many important number concepts. Addi on strategies, subtrac on strategies, ordering numbers, problem solving, represen ng numbers in a variety of ways, etc have been our focus the past two months. We will con nue to prac ce these concepts throughout the year, in our math journals and weekly review. November will bring our second math unit on mul plying and dividing! (***Please make sure to check your child’s agenda nightly. The agenda will contain important notes, homework, as well the odd math ac vity for your child to com-plete.***) In Social Studies, we are currently learning all about Canada’s provinces and territories. We have been engaged in a variety of ac vi es where we can prac ce matching and naming each province/territory with its capital city. Exploring the map of Canada, we can name the six geographic regions, as well as the oceans which lie to the east, west, and north of our great coun-try. Fes val is fast approaching! The Grade 4 class is presen ng two poems at the fes val in Miniota en tled, A Mosquito In The Cabin and Ballad of a Boneless Chicken. A BIG thank-you to parents for con nuing to support your child in the signing of the nightly

home reading, in the agendas. Your help is greatly appreciated and a huge asset to your

child’s learning!

GRADE FIVE NEWS FROM MRS . ROUTLEDGE


It's hard to believe we're already at the end of October. Before you know it, we'll be star ng Christmas concert prac ces! Before we get there though, we need to get through Halloween and fes val. We have been busy prac cing our poems, 'The Bogeyman' and 'Homework! Oh Home-

work' for the big day which is Wednesday, November 4th. We would also like to thank Mrs. Johns for providing our class with pumpkins to carve for Halloween. Since the last newsle er we have completed our math unit on whole numbers and have been working on mul plica on. Parents, please prac ce the facts up to 9X9 with your child every

chance you can. The faster your child knows them, the easier everything will be. We are going to be learning some mental math strategies, as well as a couple of strategies for the more challenging ques ons. In LA we have pre y much wrapped up a wri ng assignment we have been doing about ourselves. We have also been doing some work with the novel "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry which is being enjoyed by all. This novel takes place during the second world war and Anne-marie and the rest of the Danish people need to protect the Jewish community from the Nazis. We have already had a few tense mo-ments that had us wondering what might happen next. We have just completed our science unit on Simple Ma-chines, and have started to think about our social studies unit called "Canada's First Peoples". We will start by looking at how these peo-ple first arrived in North America. Happy Halloween, everyone!

GRADE FIVE NEWS FROM MISS ARMSTRONG

OCTOBER, 2015

October 30th - Halloween Costume Parade 12:45 p.m. Followed by the Monster Mash in the gym. November 3rd a.m. - Festival Miniota - Kindergarten, Grades 1 & 2 p.m. - Grades 3 & 4 November 4th p.m. - Festival Miniota - Grade 5 November 10th - Remembrance Day Service HCI 10:30 a.m. November 11th - Remembrance Day No Classes November 16th - Blood Donor Clinic November 19th (evening) & November 20th (a.m.) No Classes - Parent Teacher Interviews November 27th - Hot Lunch December 10th - Christmas Concert p.m. Dress Rehearsal & Evening performance 7:00 p.m. (doors open 6:30 p.m.) December 18th - Hot Lunch & Last Day of Classes

Can you imagine if you were given one million dollars? We are doing some amazing math deciding how we each would spend one million dollars. There are some very interes ng purchases being made! In prepara on for the speech fes val, we have been busy learning two different class poems. They sound amaz-

ing! We have also started our first book club unit tled Crimes, Clues, and Suspects. Each group is reading a different book that fits the mystery genre. There is lots of an cipa on building to figure out all the clues and solve the crimes. In social studies we have been learning about all of the different First Na ons groups in Canada. We have been very adventurous trying some new foods that these people would have eaten. We have tried squash, cornbread and wild rice so far. Our work in social studies has inspired our latest art project, a water

color landscape of a plains se lement. Blending the different colors togeth-

er created very unique pictures.

IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES AT HAMIOTA ELEMENTARY! !

Emily Hunter and Chelsey Lawn

There have been a few students from Hamiota this year, who have experienced Encounters

with Canada in O awa. There were different topics that we

could a end. We chose Science and Ecology!

One day we went on a bus

tour of the city, visited Parlia-

ment and Parliament Hill, the

Canadian War Memorial, the

Museum of Nature and

Rideau Hall. We had a full week of amazing mes, crea ng

memories and making new friends. We hope everyone gets

the opportunity to a end this great program.

Cassie Hunter

Encounters with Canada was an amazing experience and I

would recommend it to anyone! I went alone and I can hon-

estly say I wouldn’t have wanted it any different. I went to

the science and technology week. Ac vi es included seeing

Parliament Hill and going on a bus trip around O awa. I

went on a haunted walk and I got to see O awa’s pre est

building at night. We visited museums and had some ac vi-

es like extrac ng DNA from a banana. Because I went alone this pushed me to make more

friends and become more outgoing and to do crazy

things I never would have done before. My group de-

cided that no ma er what week or theme you

choose, you are guaranteed a good me because it

wasn’t about the theme, it was more about making

las ng friendships and to push our social boundaries.

ENCOUNTERS WITH CANADA


BAND AND CHOIR NEWS

OCTOBER, 2015

BAND CAMP

On October 14 & 15 Grade 8 students from Hamiota joined band students from Shoal Lake, Strathclair and Major Pra in Russell for two days of Band Camp at Camp Wannacumbac. In total 65 students a ended. The students spent many hours in sec onal prac ces and ended the Camp with a mass band performance. The conductor was Larry Pearon, a re red band teacher, who leads the Yorkton Community Band. There was also me for fun and ge ng to know the students from other communi es. HCI Grade 10 student, Korinne Alexander, a ended as a percussion clinician. Despite some red lips from playing so much, the students and Miss No-vakowski enjoyed this great experience. CHOIR FUNDRAISER At noon hour on Thursday, October 22 the Senior Choir held a pie-in-the –face fundraiser. Members of the choir and Miss Novakowski volunteered to get a pie in their face from those who bid the highest. Over $450.00 was raised. The Choir will be travelling to Winnipeg from Novem-ber 18 –20th. On their tour they will be performing at Choral Fest.

Dawson Brooks gets a pie from Caleb Rindlisbacher

Students place their bids

Miss Novakowski gets a pie from Christyna Caldwell

HCI CHRISTMAS CONCERT TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 7:00 P.M.

Featuring Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8 & Senior Band Senior Choir MIDDLE YEARS DRAMA C.S.I..: Christmas Scene Inves gators

HCI French Travel Club is doing a vegetable fundraiser, perfect ming to have you set up for the holiday season! Dona ons to the Food Bank and Christmas Cheer Board are also an op on! Please see a member of the HCI French Travel Club or call the school if you’re interested. Order deadline is Tuesday, Nov 4th and pick-up is Tuesday, Nov 17th at 4:00 (HCI school library). BUNDLE A: $10

2lbs of carrots, 2lbs of onions & 5 lbs of red potatoes BUNDLE B: $20

3 lbs of carrots, 3 lbs of onions, 10 lbs of red potatoes, 1 lbs of parsnips & 1 head green cabbage

FRENCH TRAVEL CLUB FUNDRAISER

OCTOBER, 2015

STUDENT VOTE

Elections Canada implemented a student vote as part of the Federal Election this year to help increase awareness of voting and governance among youth in Canada. This year, the grade 9 Social Studies class was instrumental in organizing and running the student vote within Hamiota Collegiate. As an added bonus, the organizing class extended an invitation to all federal candi-dates in our riding and were successful in bringing four of the five candidates to Hamiota Colle-giate for all students to meet. Students were able to meet with and ask questions of the candidates in an open house format on Friday, October 16. Immediately following the open house, each students was able to cast their ballot for one of the five candidates. In our school, the results were as follows: Ray Piche: 53 Robert Sopuck: 46 Laverne Lewycky: 17 Inky Mark: 11 Kate Storey: 4 A special thanks goes out to the Grade 9 class for organizing this event and to eve-rybody who exercised their right and re-sponsibility to vote!

The HCI Student Vote winner Ray Piché meets with students.

OCTOBER, 2015

UPCOMING DATES Oct. 30: Halloween Costume Day & Middle Years Ac vi es Nov. 1: Park West Outlaws Playoff Game in Swan River Nov. 3 & 4: Speech Fes val in Miniota Nov. 5: Fes val Final Concert in Miniota Nov. 10: Remembrance Day Service at HCI 10:30 a.m. Nov. 18‐20: Senior Choir Trip Nov. 19 4:3‐0‐7:00 p.m. & Nov. 20 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon: Parent‐Teacher Days—We hope to see all parents and students a end! Dec. 8: HCI Christmas Concert & Middle Years Drama

MHSAA Champions Mentorship Program

Champions is a "Lifestyles" cross mentoring program devel-oped by the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association. The goal of this program is to have senior high school student leaders visit grade 5 classes and make the students aware of peer pressure and the affect that it has on any decisions they make. It is designed to help the high school students, and in turn, the elementary students develop life coping skills. Eveline Juce and Randy Kirk spent two days in October getting trained to deliver this program to the grade 5 class at HES. The main objective of the Champions program is to prevent substance abuse by providing students with positive peer role models through cross-mentoring, to spread the message that you can succeed in life without using drugs and alcohol, and to attempt to identify some of the problems, for example peer pressure, that cause young people to resort to drug use. Stu-dent leaders will be taught how to present their lesson plan, how to develop "ice breakers" and how to create skits to get the message across.

Thank-you to the following people for dona ng items to the grade 6 - 8 art class: Mrs. Facey, Campbell Flowers & Loree Gardham, and Jen Sims We are s ll looking for the following items;

-a blender for making paper -jars and bo les -flowers, jewelry, feathers, rocks, etc. -any type of paint - n foil and saran rolls -anything that can be used as props or -other “junk” you would like costumes (for improv) to dispose of

Please contact Mme Mitchell if pick-up is needed. — Thanks, Mme Mitchell

GRADE 6—8 ART ITEMS STILL NEEDED

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